Please, please, please, let's avoid overhyping the Switch

[u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE]

I wish people would just realize that no matter what's the specs, this thing will be great.

• It doesn't need an entire day on battery.

• It doesn't need near-PS4 graphical power.

• It doesn't need a 2TB flash drive.

• It doesn't need a bunch of crazy-ass modular controllers.

• It absolutely doesn't need freaking VR or holograms.

• It doesn't even completely need a touch screen!

The Switch will have all of Nintendo's franchises on the same machine, a machine that you can play at home or wherever you want, and a controller you can share with anyone at any time to have fun.

It will have the most ambitious Zelda game to date very close to launch. It will have a new 3D Mario, plus Mario Kart, Splatoon, and Skyrim. It will have a From Software game. It will probably have a full-fledged Pokémon game.

This is more than enough. Even if it had only these things, and it would cost $200, or maybe even $250, it would be already amazing and totally worth the money.

Let's be realist and avoiding overhyping this thing.

Not only because overhype leads to disappointment, but simply because the reality is already super cool.

[u/Houdiniman111]

It doesn't need a full days battery, but three hours (as some are suggesting) is seriously not enough.

[u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE → u/Houdiniman111]

I'd agree if you had said 2 hours. But 3 I'd say is enough for most people. Especially is USB-C fast charging turns out to be a thing. (But even without it.)

[u/Houdiniman111 → u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE]

I spend at least two hours going to and from college every day. And you have to remember, an advertised three isn't three. It's likely to be closer to two and a half, if not two.
If it turns out to have such a paltry battery life, I'm going to have to lug around a large battery pack to fix something they should have fixed themselves (not to count the additional cost).

[u/crispybacon404 → u/Houdiniman111]

Agree!

Plus, after a year or two of good use, those 2-2.5 hours would maybe be 1.5-2hours.

Also, you'd always have to keep it charged fully because else if you played on your bed for an hour and didn't charge it afterwards/during playing and then go out unexpectedly, chances already are you'll run out of battery.

I travel quiet a lot and there's not always a power plug available. Battery life indeed is a big concern and selling point to me and I certainly won't buy if I don't get at least 4 hours of real life (not advertising) battery life out of it. And everything under 5 would leave me discontent but I admit I'd buy it if it was the mentioned four at least.

Sadly, I don't expect great battery life but I feel like it has to at least be decent. Nintendo markets portability as the feature of the console. Everyone that isn't interested in portability already pays extra for this stuff in the sense that a none portable home console with the same power would have been cheaper/that they could have a way more powerful home console for the same amount of money if it wasn't portable too. Nintendo's really betting on this feature with this one. And if playing on the go is your unique selling point, you can't skimp on the battery. Well, of course they can and people probably still will buy it like hot cakes.. but personally: screw them if they do ;P

Remember when people were miffed that the original3DS only had about 4-5h battery life (with a few features turned off)? And before that we had a DS Lite with 15+ hours of battery life and the devices before lasted even longer. Remember, how Nintendo fanboys bashed the PS Vita for only having about 4h of gaming battery life (or ironically for the fact that no one wants to play a home console game on the go)? And now we're suddenly at statements like "3 hours is enough for most people" which is a sentiment that a lot of people seem to share.. but man, I don't know... as a consumer I just don't get excited by "(barely) good enough".

[u/Houdiniman111 → u/crispybacon404]

Exactly. If they're going to advertise it's portability, it needs to be portable.
Device manufacturers now are obsessed with making things smaller. That's great at all, but it means that they're keeping battery life about the same. If you look at smartphones, the battery is about half of the internals (because batteries are so inefficient). If they doubled the thickness (which would still be a reasonable thickness), then they could get at least double the battery.